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$15, if they were assured that t h e j S g j
would be - representative ôf: w hat the|
new job would reqm ie'Of them.
Recommended Remedies
The Oregon State Employees As
sociation, at its
Portland, recom m ended Civil Service
im provem ents as follows:
. 1. Require immediately that g g g a
tions, especially those of a super-
visory nature, be filled from lists
created by Civil
■ tional exam inations.
2. That the Civil g | B Q G B W j | j
increased to providaab'etter ®erzv-:
ice; bet,ter^selecting4 rating and
-^certifying
H That the AssffcMgCTBtehd B B i P -
port ■•W BW EriW HKg^vfl->Serv-
i r e W
f f i iâ g M d ia
educating and g j M | | | l K | of |fhdse
who neglect or fail to c o o p é r a t i f
in m aking the A c t i |m ||l its t r u ^ J
purpose 4 « ^ » l « B B 3 i e » g a r e
^ ^ R t e l ^ B employee.
In the interests of good go vernm ent
and good e m p h ^ r a K ^ M i c S ,.em-
ployees w ant a fair deal in th S ^ jm a tS h
ters of examinations, jobs and promo
tions which affect theirjM E B j l their
lives, their families and tli’e i r j « ^ ^ ® ;
Guess Who’s Mad?
Lar^c Union Attacks OSEA
By VIRGIL G. O’NEIL
Former Director of Public Relations
When our comparatively small Ore
gon State Employees/’Association, ap
proxim ately 4,500 members, draws the
abuse of an AF of L àffiliàtion of over
200,000 members in the Oregon P u M g
Employees News (A F of L magazine),
one wonders what is behind
smoke! Could it be th a t'thè A F of L
union for State, Òpunty and Municipal
Employees is having h ard sig m n ^ h i j
getting State emolov^sWto join- them
at^ ^ -tune of $2.00 per month dues,
60 cents of which goes goodness-knows
where in the East? Or is it because
our own self-governing, boss-free As
sociation has made good and brought
home the bacon for all State employees
while th e S C & M E labor bosses
drew their high salaries with little
accomplished for their membersffM
Claims Are Cheap
Everyone-, knows that desperation
begets carelessness and often results
in exaggeration. To illustrate the pos
sible desperation of the paid le a d e d
of this S C & M E group, we q i t ìg / a
few excerpts from the October; 1949
issue of their Oregon Public Employee
News:
Concerning the prèsent^5-;day, 4Ó-
hour week—“A t no tim e during these
mg g t^ ^ ^ (Board of Control) w ere any
representatives of the non-union em-
ployees association (M eaning t h
OSEA) present. Howev^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -f/Jy
tion, through its propaganda machine,
has ‘ s e e n H B to '^ B u la r i'f e O M e em-
ployees that they, th e association, were
responsible for obtaining the 5-day,
40-hour week *“Up to n B j ^ w o f l ^ e a ^ p
late!) “làbòr^had m ade no attem pt to
publicize thè* falsity of the non-union
state e m p l ^ ^ S B ^ ^ ^ O ^ ^ ^ a L s t a t é -
mentsi” The article then g o e s o n to
state that they, the S C & M E were
wholly responsible for ob’tairiing it.
Quoting again, “It is a w ell-know n
fact among the common énípl ^ ^ ¿t^S, ■
the State that officers of the non-union
association arejSH |SM B B || from óthéx
r a n k s 'o f
1 these,
officers, in their capacity of supervi
sors on occasion apt as organizers for
the non-union association.”
Now, fellov^ m p ld y ^ ^ W ^ h a v e be-
fore us a m ild sample" of hów;ftBigjà- €B
bor-boss controlled “sister u n io i^ K
feedfB ^o ir propaganda to th eir m em -
bership, (our® èllow w orkers in State
service), and how easy,?$B i||to m ake
c l a i ^ ^ ^ ^ S t o exaggerate ^ e n there I
are axes to grind.
The facts about the ,5.-day> 40-hour
week are th at Jwr own OSEA Execu-